rehome

UK/ɹiːˈhəʊm/US/ɹiːˈhəʊm/

verbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — home sits at #55Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: rehoming, rehomed

To rehome is to find a new family for an animal. Rehome a dog, hard to rehome.

Older animals and black cats are hardest, for reasons that say more about people than animals. To rehome well means matching the animal to the household rather than to whoever asks first.

Definitions of rehome

1verbrehomeTo find a new family for an animal.C1
“It took eight months to rehome a dog of that size.”

rehome is a placing.

Where it comes from

Middle English
hōm
English
home
English, today
rehome

From re- + home. home comes from Middle English hōm. From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic haim, from Proto-Germanic haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root tḱey-. a doublet of heyem. 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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